Religion is ‘the new social evil’
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The Times reported this week that a poll conducted by a Christian charity has identified religion as the new social evil of the 21st century.
Over 3000 people were questioned on what they considered to be the worst blights on modern society. Many people responded saying that religion divided society, fuelled intolerance and spawned ‘irrational’ educational and other policies. In fact researchers found that the dominant opinion was that religion was a ‘social evil’.
The poll was conducted in order to update a list compiled over a century ago by Rowntree, a Quaker. On the original list of ‘scourges of humanity’ were things such as poverty, war, slavery, intemperance, the opium trade, impurity and gambling. Whilst drugs and poverty are still high on the list other issues that are concerning people nowadays include fears over young people’s behavior, immigration and family breakdown.
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